obtained in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in a poor region of Nicaragua in 2005 and 2006. The program has …

-sensitive framework, which is applied to the case of Nicaragua. Overall, we find that in this country, multidimensional poverty decreased … distributed in 2001 than in 2014. These findings suggest that progress in multidimensional poverty reduction in Nicaragua seems to …", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in …

uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

This background paper for the Chronic Poverty Report 2007-08 addresses three key questions: 1) Where there is sustained …

In Nicaragua – one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere - a new type of intervention has been developed … “Programa de Facilitadores Judiciales” now covers all rural communities in Nicaragua, is being extended to urban areas, and has …

This note extends the Ravallion and Huppi (1991) aggregate poverty change decomposition, to account for the distinct … contribution of migration and differential natural population growth between sectors to the aggregate poverty change. We apply our … on national poverty change …

market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … probability that a poor worker's family will move out of poverty, and b) increases in legal minimum wages are more likely to …

Nicaragua, even in the absence of labor-saving appliances. Electricity is shown to increase the propensity of rural Nicaraguan …

developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another developing country, Costa Rica. We find little evidence to support … inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica …